#55: Document that Windows naming restrictions
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Reporter: cmpilato | Owner: nobody
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: content | Version: nightly/trunk
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Eric Hanchrow <offby1 at blarg.net> wrote:
Windows doesn't like colons. This is clearly a shortcoming in the svn
docs -- they should make clear that, if you're using a mixed environment,
then file names need to be acceptable to _all_ client platforms. You
should add a pre-commit hook that checks each "add" to make sure the file
name is simple enough to work everywhere. In the meantime, rename that
file so that it doesn't contain a colon: "svn mv svn://bad/file:namesvn://better/file-name"
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But another thing we might want to point out by way of general advice for
multi-OS-using clients of a particular Subversion repository is to avoid
names that look like Windows devices ("con", "aux", "prn", "com1", "lpt1"
...)
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